“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new…India discovers herself again.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
(on Indian Independence Day, 1947)

These are India’s First Independence Day Snapshots.

Today India is Celebrating its 61st Independence Day. On 15 August 1947,India became an independent nation.

The first Prime Minister of independent India Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru made a famous speech titled Tryst with destiny on the eve of India’s independence.
“At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance….. We end today a period of ill fortune, and India discovers herself again.” – Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
I wish all of you a Happy Independence Day.

This short fascinating video narrates the evolution of Indian Independence.